I LOVEIn her second collection, award winning poet and playwright Rosy Carrick presents a passionate, lyrical and unflinchingly intimate collage of ruptured memory, drowned childhood, irreducible violence, and the intoxicating chimera of inviolable desire. Experimental and playful, the poems dart across a fractured and eclectic terrain: from quantum mechanics, grimy London sex clubs and fridged women to blood retinal barrier corruption, haunted reservoirs

In 1973 Fred Voss abandoned a PhD in English literature at the University of California

The Fate of Yakkov Maggid

Unease is mechanically exported to the set: the stage is demarcated by unnecessarily hot radiators

At home his young son

Mourid Barghouti's poetry shines through the translation

Anne Vegter

Los Pinochet Boys

captured and castrated by Arab slavers

beer and bourbon and Brêton cider

Whether reflecting on family

breaking into homes for an extended debate about the nature of freedom

and an ideal introduction to the 'here and now' of Slovak poetry